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Stephen King Quotes - Page 26

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Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Real, Writing, Differences

"Stephen King says ‘Twilight’ author ‘can't write’". www.today.com. February 4, 2009.

If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

Ponies, Vicinity, Seeing

Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 1: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Writing, Dark, Kissing

One can often trace the sources of a brand personality - here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent.

Business, Somewhere Else, Personality

"Stephen King 1971: What is a brand?". www.campaignlive.co.uk. October 5, 2007.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

People, Dumb, Ifs

Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

Kids, Night, Color

Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

Running, Abyss

Stephen King (2016). “The Running Man”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

Bad chances were better than no chances.

Chance

Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

Pain, Tyrants

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Men, Imagination, May

Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.449, Simon and Schuster

As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

Mother, Victory, World

Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

Games, Looks, Cheated

Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Lying, Dark Tower, Truth Is

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.

Life, Care, Bowling

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

Mad, Company

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.420, Anchor

A person can't change all at once.

Can't Change, Persons

Stephen King (1990). “The Stand”, Signet Book

And then the world exploded.

World

Stephen King (2000). “Carrie”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

Life, Hate, Love You

STEPHEN KING (1977). “THE SHINING”

Long days and pleasant nights

Night, Long, Dark Tower

Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Funny, House, Sanity

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Stories, Clicks, Happens

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Blessed, Writing, Ideas

"Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More". Interview with James Parker, www.theatlantic.com. April 12, 2011.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

Size, Mystery, Dark Tower

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.

Book, Writing, Dark

Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

Stories, Pay, Blind

"Stephen King's New Work Hits the Web". abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2000.

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